What's the C# team up to these days? Who's on the C# 4.0 design team, anyway? With the looming problem of manycore facing developers now and certainly in the near future (to a much greater extent - programming for 80 core (asymmetric to boot) processors,
anyone?). I thought it was time to find out…

Jaron Lanier is an extraordinary individual. He is the father of virtual reality, a forceful pundit for "software humanism," an accomplished musician, a philosopher, and
a Microsoft Partner Architect working on cloud computing problems in the Extreme Computing group. For three years,…

The IE team is busy working on the next version of the world's most popular browser. IE 8 is the most widely used browser on Windows.
IE 9 is currently in the oven and the IE team is ready to talk about what they're working on. Here, IE GM Dean Hachamovitch leads us through the halls of IE…

The IE team is busy working on the next version of the world's most popular browser. IE 8 is the most widely used browser on Windows.
IE 9 is currently in the oven and the IE team is ready to talk about what they're working on. Here, JavaScript engine team members John Montgomery, Steve Lucco and…

In this second installment of
C9 Conversations, a format where we sit down with various big thinkers to discuss a wide range of big topics related to computing; all in high quality video and audio, the topic is Complexity (ambient complexity, to be precise - it's hard to program systems
that are…

In this screencast, Garrett Serack from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center talks about his new project, the Common Opensource Application Publishing Platform (CoApp). CoApp aims to create a vibrant Open Source ecosystem on Windows by providing
the technologies needed to build a complete…

At Xamarin Evolve 2013, I caught up with Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza after his keynote. It's been a while since I last chatted with Miguel, so it was great to catch up. Clearly, he and team have been very busy pushing Mono forward and building Xamarin—a new technology that enables developers to…

It's always a pleasure to get to spend time with Andrei Alexandrescu and pick his formidable mind. Here, we turn the camera on and have a frank and honest conversation about the current state of the D programming language, including how he and his team are using it at Facebook. Then there's talk…